Hi, as the packaging for Debian will change as well for the next KiCad release I've some questions pointed to the contributors and admins of the libraries to be able to prepare the needed package transitions as also mentioned by Jean-Samuel.
1. Is there some release time strategy planned? Are there any release dates planned for the newly created repositories and what are the planes for releasing updates of these. 2. What are the planned version numbers? As the libraries are changing regularly and these changes are independent from some KiCad major version I guess the usage of the KiCad version model isn't sufficient here. Most other project use here a date as version. e.g 2018_01 or 2018-02-15 3. What are the plans for providing coherent library names and the introducing new libraries? In the release circle for KiCad 4 some libraries have been abandoned and have been moved over to new libraries without a upgrade path. That had produced some headaches for me as package maintainer due users have complained (correctly) their projects didn't worked after the package update. I worked around this by providing symlinks from the old library name to the new library name if possible. Please don't break existing user installations within one release circle! 4. What about backward compatibility of the libraries? I don't follow the development of KiCad in a regularly way and especially not the development of the libraries, so maybe this question is answered in another place already. What can be done if people who need to stay on KiCad 4 (e.g. we can't provide KiCad 5 for Debian 8 (Jessie) aka Old-Stable). -- Regards Carsten Schoenert _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
